He had a tough run in Denver back in the ’80s, with failing restaurant Kailua’s and defunct nightclub EFEX.

But now he live in California and owns 20 Yard Houses, including the one in Lakewood, and he recently sold a 70% stake in the beerhouse chain for about $200 million. Not bad.

Stepfanie with a F

Stepfanie Kramer comes home to Denver July 18 with a cabaret act.

Friends and fans will dine around at the Palm, then go across the park to Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret for Kramer’s take on the “Great American Songbook.”

You know Kramer. She played Dee Dee McCall on “Hunter” in the ’80s, ’90s and again in 2003. She’s also been in lots of TV movies and she’s a singer in clubs around the country.

Her idea of the “Great American Songbook” is inclusive, everyone from Duke Ellington to Cole Porter to Burt Bacharach.
“I’ve always been a singer and songwriter,” she says. “One thing led to another and here we are.”

It’s a Sedaris attack! Amy Sedaris is at The Lab at Belmar 5-7 p.m. Tuesday. Her brother David Sedaris is at the Tattered Cover LoDo noon June 22 with his new book, and again at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium Oct. 29

Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.